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2008 Olympic Gold Medalist
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Born in the small town of Hazelton, BC, Carol grew up playing every sport she could. At the urging of family and friends, she joined her high school wrestling team at age 15 and has enjoyed and excelled at the sport ever since. She was recruited by Simon Fraser University in 1998 where she later received a BA in Psychology. She made the Junior World team in 1999 and in 2000 she made both the Junior and Senior World Teams. Carol has relinquished her position on the senior national team only once in her career. Unfortunately, it was the year leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games... Determined to make the 2008 Olympic Team, Carol in 2007 moved from Vancouver to Calgary. She left her friends and family, and put her academic career on hold to enable her to focus solely on her training and pursue her Olympic Dreams to the fullest. Now that she has made the Olympic team for 2008, she is looking forward to future success. With supportive friends, family, teammates and coaches, Carol is prepared for the arduous journey that the pursuit of Olympic Gold may be. In the future Carol sees herself attaining her goals and aspirations of going back to University to become a sport psychologist and starting a family with her husband. Recent Messages If you have any comments, words of encouragement, or anything to say to Carol, please click "Add a message" below. [Add a message] [All messages] Mark Kamachi - -2 days ago Hey Carol, It was a pleasure spending the day with you on the golf course at the Calgary Counselling Centre Charity Event. Being in the presence of such a great athlete is something I will remember forever. Thank you. Cheers, Mark. PS You obviously put a ton of time on the wrestling mats and not on the driving range. Good on you. LOL. A few buckets and you'll be gold, again. waynephan - -35 days ago Watching the gold medal ceremony was amazing, many thanks for being an inspiration! I can show my daughter an amazing world champion. Much love from California! John - -142 days ago Hi Carol, Yes I do remember you;) Just want to say you are our pride and joy! Thank you for accepting the corona at the villa in vancouver. You are very cute and it definitely has been an honour and a pleasure to have met you although for a brief moment but a moment to remember:) All the best, John (shnor@hotmail.com) james taylor - -191 days ago Hello Carol. It has been almost two years since I watched you win Gold in 2008. I watched a lot of athletes during the olympics and watched them receive their metals. And of course, I am rejoice with the athletes who reached their goals and won a gold medal. Yet, I wish I understood why watching you receive your gold medal so deeply affected me, and still does to this day. Today, Feb 28 2010, during CTV's closing program on canadian olympic athletes who have won Gold, they showed your picture, and the emotion you had upon winning, and it again triggered all these intense emotions in me again. Emotions are very complicated, and I can better understand why some people dedicate their life to physciatry and trying to understand why we feel the way we do. But I think part of it is, that your countenance, and the expressions you have, your smile, your eyes, communicate,( at least to me), so much kindness, so much care and concern and gentleness, that it seemed impossible for someone like you to win gold in wrestling. Yet , you did it, and in so doing, you greatly increased the respect I have for olympic wrestlers. I despise the culture and agressiveness that goes along with the world of wrestling that exists outside of olympic wrestling. So, when I first saw you before your gold medal olympic match, I wondered what type of a personality does this woman have? And I initially made the mistake of allowing the WWF wrestling federation's culture taint my viewpoint. But when I heard you talk afterwards, it was with wonder... Is it just an impression, or is my impression true, that you are very kind, caring, tender and gentle lady? How do your friends view you? I'm confident , just like I view you. Thank you james taylor |
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